Dance While You Can

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat. - Wes Montgomery

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. - Jimi Hendrix

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt